08/30/23 THE ABSURDITY OF IT ALL

08/30/23 THE ABSURDITY OF IT ALL

The absurdity of a body part "thinking" it can not only exist separately from the rest of the body, but "thinking" it can flourish separately from the rest of the body is almost unimaginable.

Actually, body parts need to be in proper relationship with the rest of the body in order to do their intended functions properly, and the purpose of bodily parts is to serve the rest of the body. Body parts do not exists for self service.

Not only will the specific body part fail to do what it was intended to do, it will cause the rest of the body to suffer loss also.

I am not talking about what a doctor or a medical procedure can do with a body part. I am talking about a body part, "thinking" that it can function and be productive as its own being.

The longer you refuse to be a healthy part of a local body of believers, the more you will lose and the more you will rob the rest of that local body of believers.

A person cannot become a Christian and then reject God's plan to be a loving part of a living body of believes. This mentality of separation and errant superiority is older than the human race. It goes back to the original "Pride" movement (which also led to destruction). 

Isaiah 14:12-15 (notice clauses marked with asterisks *)
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, *I will ascend into heaven, *I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: *I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 *I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; *I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

Again I say, the longer you separate, the more you lose and the more you rob yourself and family and God.